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William Eamon

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I am Regents Professor of History and Dean of the Honors College at New Mexico State University, where I have taught history of science and European history for almost 30 years. I’m a specialist in the history of science and medicine in Renaissance Italy and Spain, and most of what I write is about the origins of modern science. I have written and edited 3 books and more than 50 articles, essays, and book chapters. My book, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and was the winner of the History Book Award from the American Publishers Association. That book introduced the scholarly world to the “books of secrets” tradition and has received a lot of attenti ...more

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The Invention of DiscoveryPart 1: Travel and Discovery in Antiquity

“Lucy”

[Note: This post is dedicated to my friend Jack Wright, Regents Professor of Geography at New Mexico State University, like Herodotus an inveterate traveler, like Pytheas a curious wanderer.]

Humans are by nature discoverers. Anthropologists tell us that our earliest discoveries, the ones that have been taken to define human nature—the invention of tools, for example—were in fact the dis

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	The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy 3.35 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture 3.94 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Más allá de la leyenda negra: España y la revolución científica by Victor Navarro Brotons (editor), William Eamon (Goodreads Author) (editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

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William Eamon wrote a new blog post The Lure of the Charlatan In an earlier post, I discussed the source of the Renaissance charlatan’s power and suggested that charisma—that difficult to pin down, divinely endow Read more of this blog post »
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William Eamon made a comment on The Iconography of Scientific Discovery in the Renaissance (Part I) " You might like "The Professor of Secrets," my latest book; but I'm glad you like my blog, too! "
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